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Change Boot Priority Samsung RV515

I want to be able to boot from a USB thumb drive. My search efforts have only gotten me more confused. One source said it was "simple." Just change to "Fast Boot" in the BIOS. Guess what I couldn't find in the BIOS-Fast Boot. With apologies, here is a combined screen shot of the BIOS. Could someone carefully and patiently explain what I need do? TIA

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Did this computer originally have Windows 8? If not you will not have Fastboot or SecureBoot, at least that is how it looks on your BIOS. Under the Boot Menu, #4 and #2 should be switched so the USB key is one under the CD drive and above the hard drive. You also have UEFI disabled so I am assuming you have a MBR disk and not a GPT disk.

Attach the flash drive to the computer. Boot up and tap the F10 key. You should get a menu listing which boot device you want to boot from. Select your Flash Drive.

Bingo! That works. The F10 didn't offer the boot option, but that could have been me not tapping soon enough. I'll try again tomorrow. I wanted the USB boot to play with Ubuntu Live versions and also if I ever wanted to reinstall Windows so F10 is not critical for my needs..

I help(?) a non profit group out now and again and people donate pc's to them. I'm more a draftee than knowledgeable volunteer. This laptop I think is only a year or two old and never had Windows 8. The gentleman that owned got it mostly to play chess on-line. I only read something about UEFI tonight so really can't comment. Thanks so much for the help.